The Joomlashack Blog
Your Getting Started Tutorial for OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 October 2019 14 October 2019
A Joomla sitemap will help Google and other search engines find and understand your site's content. OSMap is the best Joomla sitemap extension.
It is the easiest way to add a sitemap to your Joomla site. All you need to do is install OSMap and it will do the rest. OSMap will automatically create a Google-friendly sitemap for all your content.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with OSMap.
The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
Five years ago, our team held an online Joomla Day with over 20 speakers from around the world. Over 1,000 people attended! You can see videos from that event on YouTube.
I'm delighted to say we're planning to host another online Joomla Day on November 6th, 7th and 8th.
Many of you don't live close to an in-person Joomla event, so this online version can reach many more people. Just like any normal Joomla event, we'll have presentations of 30 to 40 minutes, followed by questions.
Read more: The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
How to Create a Field with Countries in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
You can very quickly and easily build Joomla forms with our Shack Forms Joomla extension. Your form can be fairly simple, collecting just a name and an email.
With Shack Forms, you can also quickly build a more advanced form. One of our customers asked how to allow a form submitter to select their country.
In this blog tutorial, I'll show you how to create a field with countries in Shack Forms.
Read more: How to Create a Field with Countries in Shack Forms
Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2019 04 October 2019
Joomla and Joomlashack have been around for over 14 years now.
So many things have changed in that time. But, many of the very best Joomla extensions are still going strong! Watchful did a survey of the most popular Joomla extensions and the winners all launched in 2006 and 2007.
We have one extension that's been at Joomlashack since those days: Shack Slides.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
How to Add an Image Above a Field in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 October 2019 03 October 2019
One of the reasons for the Shack Forms Pro popularity is its flexibility. With Shack Forms, you have many options to change your Joomla form design without touching any code.
One of our customers asked how to add an image above a field in their Shack Form. In this blog post, I'll show you how you can do this.
How to Use OSCampus, the Joomla LMS
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 October 2019 02 October 2019
OSCampus is our popular Learning Management System (LMS) for Joomla. This Joomla extensions is incredibly robust and is already used by 1,000's of people every week.
In this getting started guide, I'll show you how to add OSCampus to your site.
OSCampus is organized in a very simple way: Classes contain Lessons. Everything is a secondary feature, so we'll focus on setting up those core elements.
Joomlashack Changelogs Are Now Easier to Find
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 October 2019 01 October 2019
Last week, we got the news that Joomlashack is one of the most popular extension developers in Joomla.
With a large number of users, your feature requests come in thick-and-fast.
Some of the feature requests are major, such as "Can you build an eCommerce extension?" Spoiler: we're working on it.
Joomla eCommerce Users: Are You Ready for SCA?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 September 2019 20 September 2019
Last year, website owners needed to deal with the new European privacy laws known as GDPR. We wrote a guide to Joomla and the GDPR.
This year, there are new European rules that involve eCommerce. There are two names for these new requirements:
- PSD2: Payment Services Directive.
- SCA: Strong Customer Authentication.
PSD2 is the overall set of laws and SCA is the specific group of regulations launching this month. So SCA is what we're going to talk about in this post.
How to Display YouTube Video as a URL with OSYouTube Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 September 2019 18 September 2019
One of our customers asked how to display a YouTube video only as a URL link.
This is possible with OSYouTube Pro. The parameter that makes this possible is "Ignore HTML links".
In this blog post, I'll show you how to embed a YouTube video just as a URL
Read more: How to Display YouTube Video as a URL with OSYouTube Pro
Why We Use Watchful for Joomla Site Maintenance
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 September 2019 13 September 2019
Joomlashack is one of the most popular Joomla sites.
Actually, that's not really true. Joomlashack is actually over 40 Joomla sites.
We've got at least 20 sites for template demos. We've got extension demo sites, test sites, client sites and more. Joomlashack.com is a big and sprawling network of sites.